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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






2. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






3. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






4. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






5. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






6. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






7. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






8. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






9. What a story or play is about.






10. The dictionary meaning of a word.






11. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






12. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






13. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






14. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






15. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






16. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






17. Broken down acts.






18. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






19. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






20. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






21. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






22. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






23. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






24. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






25. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






26. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






27. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






28. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






29. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






30. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






31. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






32. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






33. The organizational form of a literary work.






34. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






35. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






36. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






37. The time and place of a story or play.






38. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






39. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






40. A poem that tells a story.






41. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






42. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






43. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






44. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






45. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






46. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






47. The main character of a literary work.






48. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






49. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






50. The emotion or feeling a word creates.